Born in the City of Balkh in Afghanistan , Mevlana lived most of his life in Konya, seat of the Seljuk Empire , located in present day in Turkiye .
Mevlana, or known also as Rumi, describes himself as:
My Mother is Love
My Father is Love
My Prophet is Love
My God is Love
I am a child of Love
I have come only to speak of Love
Rumi was an evolutionary thinker in the sense that he believed that the spirit after devolution from the divine Ego undergoes an evolutionary process by which it comes nearer and nearer to the same divine Ego. All matter in the universe obeys this law and this movement is due to an inbuilt urge (which Rumi calls "love") to evolve and seek enjoinment with the divinity from which it has emerged. Evolution into a human being from an animal is only one stage in this process.
This is one of his best poems and the one I love most:
"You cannot know how much I looked for a gift to give you.
There was nothing that pleased me.
It made no sense to give gold to the gold mine.
It made no sense to give water to the oceans
All that I found for you
Was like taking herbs to the far East.
There is no need to gift my heart and soul
You have them anyway.
That is why I brought you this mirror
So that you can look at yourself and remember me."
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